Monday, May 20, 2013

YouTube Celebrates 8th Birthday with 100 Hours of Video Every Minute

YouTube has been serving its clips of animals, planking, people falling over and monkeys in sheepskin coats for eight years.

The video streaming website launched eight years ago with a single video. Bought by Google in 2006, YouTube now has more than a billion exclusive monthly visitors who watch more than 6 billion hours of video every month.



"Today, more than 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute," said YouTube in a blog post. "That's more than four days of video uploaded each minute! Every month, more than [one] billion people come to Youtube to access news, answer questions and have a little fun. That's almost one out of every two people on the internet."

YouTube last week announced a pilot program for a small group of partners that will offer paid channels, with subscription fees starting at $0.99 per month.


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